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For fans of Charles Todd and Deanna Raybourn comes Christine Trent's second Florence Nightingale mystery.Cholera has broken out in London, but Florence Nightingale has bigger problems when people begin dying of a far more intentional cause -- murder.The London summer of 1854 is drawing to a close when a deadly outbreak of cholera grips the city. Florence Nightingale is back on the scene marshaling her nurses to help treat countless suffering patients at Middlesex Hospital as the disease tears through the Soho slums. But beyond the dangers of the disease, something even more evil is seeping through the ailing streets of London.It begins with an attack on the carriage of Florence's friend, Elizabeth Herbert, wife to Secretary at War Sidney Herbert. Florence survives, but her coachman does not.
About the Author
A MURDEROUS MALADY, Book 2 of the Florence Nightingale mystery series, was published on May 7, 2019, during National Nurses Week, which is always the week leading up to Florence's birthday on May 12th. The year 2020 marks 200 years since Florence's birth.On September 1, 2020, Sourcebooks will release Christine's latest entry in the LADY OF ASHES historical mystery series featuring Violet Harper, a Victorian undertaker with a passion for her macabre work. THE DEADLY HOURS is an anthology written with Susanna Kearsley, C.S. Harris, and Anna Lee Huber, and follows the travels of a cursed pocket watch through time.In addition to six novels and three short stories in the LADY OF ASHES series, Christine has also written several historical novels about women in unusual professions, including THE QUEEN'S DOLLMAKER (a dollmaker to Marie Antoinette) , A ROYAL LIKENESS (an apprentice to the great waxworker, Madame Tussaud) , and BY THE KING'S DESIGN (a draper to the Prince Regent) .Learn more about Christine at www.christinetrent.com or follow her on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/ChristineTrentBooks.
